Mac Can't Drive

Mostly about shows I like: Macgyver (both 2016 and 1985), House MD, Community, White Collar, Psych, many many cartoons and musicals (favorites are The Great Comet and Hadestown). But also art and whatever I want. I refuse to curate. Also the Life Series. she/they, 19. :D

[bluefire5817]

Lifer-a-Day: 3

One of a Tango-Tek! I have never drawn him before so that's fun I wanted to try draw a chibi version of him but I realised I am not capable of that atm and require learning (chibi artists you have my respect and cuteness agression) Well instead there's a hint of the heart foundation

I know the this image is blurry but I kinda liked how the coulours (in his hair) mesh and it's *definitely* a Wild Life speedy Tango cameo Why is the background also fast? ..moving on

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[verylittlebird]

                                distraptor velociraptor =     ———————-

                               timeraptor

[boyblogdog]

happy pride month to those in the closet. to those who went back into the closet. to those who have unsupportive families, friends and relationships. those who were bullied and harassed because of their identity. those who were killed because of who they truly were and loved.

you are loved and appreciated.

[mayloony]

Happy update day everyone, have breeze and blaze ranchers as a little treat

[justregularalex3]

(This took so long) hermitcraft joel.

[timeflow]

trans pride flag color picked from trans pride flag

[sodapanque]

HERMES and Ody

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[aris-has-a-paracosm]

[kosmogrl]

june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be

[systlin]

Hey I know you're into dying - I was wondering if you know what would make this incredible red stick around so long on a tapestry from 1553 - I assume the blue is indigo. It was made in Brussels, in Belgium, if a specific location would help narrow it down? It was also in storage most of its life, only brought out for Polish royal weddings, but if that was what saved the red I'd expect the background to be more vivid too. Neither the display nor the audioguide mentioned it, and I'm nosy.

Oh!!!! yes I do!!! Given that this is a very very high status piece brought out for Polish royal weddings, it was likely dyed with Kermes Red.

Kermes (dye) - Wikipedia

It's an insect similar to cochineal, but native to the Mediterranian. It was the red dye of kings and emperors for thousands of years, and is known for it's excellent color fastness.

Now it COULD also be madder, which is also extremely colorfast, but madder reds tend to be slightly more orange in tone rather than the blue undertones of the vivid (glorious) crimson on the piece. Insect reds...cochineal, lac, and kermes...tend to have more blue undertones to their red. So, I'm leaning towards kermes red for this piece.

EDIT; cochineal was being imported in quantity by 1550, so this could well be an early use of cochineal dye in Europe as well.

[herbert-west]

surgery is so intimate like what do you mean im gonna be naked and asleep on a table while surrounded by a group of people who are responsible for my very life. kind of sexual. i mean who said that

[ethosiab]

[ethosiab]

Alt vers

[ethosiab]

Im never making anything better than this

[0ringo0]

Just Meant to Watch

This guy wasn’t fun to design.

[evergreen-femme]

im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.

please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

[t4t4t]

תפילה להפך – מאבן בֹחן | Prayer for Transformation, from the poem "Even Boḥan" by Rabbi Ḳalonymus b. Ḳalonymus ben Meir (1322) • the Open Si

A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t

[unabashedllamamusic]

Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines

Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"

Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...

What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

[brick-match]

Major pet peeve in my own life is that the brick and mortar on the porch columns of my apartment don't match the rest of the building. It's not something most people would notice at first or maybe at all, but it drives me crazy.

The brick on the building is an old sandmold standard-size flashed burgundy brick and a plain buff mortar in a flush joint. If I were to match these, I would use Belden Brick's Belcrest 740 bricks. Those aren't available in standard size, but the modular size they're made in will work because it's the same height. (Matching size exactly doesn't really matter for columns or other projects where the brick isn't going to be laid directly into the existing brick wythes (in fact, the bricks on the columns are a bit longer and a bit less tall than the bricks on the house)). I'd match the mortar with Heidelberg's Old Colonial, the go-to for matching older structures, from their Flamingo colored mortar series. Heidelberg's premixed Old Colonial could also work.

The brick on the columns is just over 8 inches long and just under 2 1/4 inches tall, so it's a weird size. They may have been "seconds", meaning the factory screwed up and had to sell them at a discount. That would explain the mismatch -- mighta been a 1970s Landlord Special. Nonetheless, they're beautiful bricks. A rusty brown color with ironspot texture ("ironspot" is somewhat literal: the clay and/or shale is mixed with actual flecks of metal, usually manganese these days I think, that melts in the kiln and makes a sort of glaze of freckles on the surface of the brick!), laid with an almost-matching red mortar.

These bricks have to have been discounted, because it shouldn't have been at all difficult to match the brick on the existing building. The reason for the red mortar evades me; colored mortars are usually more expensive than plain mortar. More traditional colors like Old Colonial are popular enough to be not much pricier than the plain grey. Idk why tf they woulda done red, except maybe to hurt me personally.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

this is exactly the type of rant i signed up to tumblr to see